Chacolinks supports the oppressed indigenous people of the Argentine
Chaco who call themselves the Wichí and who have inhabited
the area for thousands of years. The future of indigenous peoples
depends on their having control of their traditional territories and
natural resources; we therefore support legal action in defence of
Wichí land rights within Argentina. To this end, we are also
committed to awareness-raising and letter-writing campaigns.

We focus our efforts on a group of Wichí
villages in Salta Province which have linked together to form an
indigenous organisation called ‘Our Forest’, or Zlaqatahyi
in the Wichí language. This aims to protect the fragile forest
ecology of the Wichí’s ancestral habitat from the threats
of logging, deforestation and intensive cash-crop production. In
addition, we provide funding to assist the setting up of small-scale
projects to relieve poverty. Click
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